Improvement in interconvertible cribs and bedsteads



S. S. BURR. vertible Crib and Bedstead.

Intercom Patented Dec. 9, 1879.

UNITED STATES PATIENT QFFIOE.

SANFORD S. BURR, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN INTERpONVERIIBLE CRIBS AND BEDSTEADS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222378, dated December 9, 1879; application filed Q May 10, 1879.

To all whom it may cancer rt: i

Be it known that I, SANFORD S. BURR, of

Chicago, Cook county, Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Interconvertible Cribs and Bedsteads, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to produce, with economy, a

structure which can be converted at will from a bedstead into a crib, and vice versa. Such a structure is, broadly considered, not new with me. There has already been patented a bedstead whose side rails are composed of hinged sections adapted'to fold together, so as to bring side rails.

the head and foot boards near enough to one another to constitute the sides of a crib, said rails still forming the supports for the slats,

while auxiliary boards are set in abovethe rails to form the head and foot boards of the crib.

It is my object to dispense with the jointed These rails, whether extended or jfolded up, are not stable and steady, nor do they hold the slats securely. They are, be-

i I sides, expensive, requiring careful jointing and strong hinges and some extraneous means for them crib head and foot boards, which are formed or provided with rails or slat-holders.

In'this way I can dispense with any special construction of bedstead side rails, and I am,

consequently, enabled to apply the invention readily to existing bedsteads, the only required addition to them being slots or sockets to be formed in the head and foot boards, to receive I dowels or holding devices on the upper portions of the crib ends. My invention will readily be understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in

which-- 7 Figure lis a perspective view of a bedstead with head and foot boards formed to receive crib ends. Fig. 2 is a like view of -a crib formed by removing the bedstead side rails and substituting therefor the crib ends. Fig. 3 is an elevation of one of the crib ends.

of the bedstead (shown in Fig. 1),are of the usual construction, save that thejboards B G, near their tops, are provided with sockets a,

which are intended to receive the dowels or steady-pins b, or other suitable attaching devices with'which the crib ends D are provided, as shown in Fig. 3. These crib ends are formed or provided each with a rail or shut holder, D, and with hooks c, or fastening devices similar to those on the ends. of the' bedstead-rails A, and so placed that theywill enter or engage the same sockets in the head and foot boards B O which are entered or en gaged by the side rails, A. v

To convert the bedstead into a crib, the side rails, A, are removed, the head and foot boards B O are brought nearer together, and the crib ends D are put in place, as shown in Fig." 2. A portion of the same slats used on the bedstead may be used on the crib.

Thus by the use. of crib ends constructed as shown I can readily apply this improve ment to bedsteads of ordinary construction now in the market with but a trifling change in or addition to the head and foot boards, and without any change in the structure of the side rails.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is 1 i The herein-described interconvertible bed stead and crib, consisting, essentially, ofhead and foot boards B O and bedstead side rails, A, in conjunction with crib ends D, interchangeable with said 'rails, and formed or provided with rails or slat-holders D, and with books or fastening devices placed and arranged in the manner described, so as to engage the side-rail sockets in the head and foot boards, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of May, 1879.

SANFORD s. Bonn.

Witnesses: A

JOHN H. Voecr, WILLIAM HAYDEN. 

